Is it a status symbol to marry young?
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Anonymous
yikes! You are definitely not an affluent or upper class. Only a poor personal or regular average everyday person would think and say such a thing. |
Anonymous
The. why is the richer and wealthier people are the less children they have? or more likely to have no children to begin with??? The data doesn’t reflect what you’re saying and only regular and poor people think procreating is leaving a legacy. LOL! |
Anonymous
No young affluent couple is marrying to protect legacy or lineage. This is 2022. |
Anonymous
| Those who marry before age 30 are significantly more likely to end up divorced. Those who spend a little time in adulthood learning more about themselves and maturing more are more likely to stay married once married. |
Anonymous
Are they really, though? Among wealthy well educated people is there really a significant difference in those marrying at 27 vs 30 in terms of divorce rates? And while some may want decades as an adult to be single learn more about themselves your options only become more limited as you get deeper into your 30s both in terms of available partners and in ability to have children. |
Anonymous
In my personal experience most who married young are still married, fee divorced. Most who married later had more issues and quite a few divorced. When you have grown, you are more set in your ways and less likely to change for other person. When you are young, you often grow together. Some people are more flexible when they are older and lost their prime peak but there are no fixed age dependent rules. |
Anonymous
| I wonder how much physical attraction there is when you've lost your youth and how long it lasts? |
Anonymous
| More young marriages are hormones and proximity, more late marriages are out of fear of ending up alone. |
Anonymous
And go through an unnecessary round of fertility drugs? No, they don’t blanketly recommend that. 
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Anonymous
+1 Not really an elite college thing. |
Anonymous
I think that’s what OP is referencing though, that there has been a recent shift in attitudes with younger people. I was 26 when I got married and now have 3 kids, I was the first to get married among my friends. Almost a decade later a couple of my friends are still unmarried but looking and a few have recently had their first child. I think my age group did tend to marry later and have kids later and it seems like young people now are seeking to do these things a bit sooner. I have noticed that wealthy young people who are not religious are showing more interest in settling down earlier. |
Anonymous
It does. Rich young couples have 3-5 or more kids. |
Anonymous
I think the point of this thread is that it is a rich kid thing. Rich kids tend to go to elite schools so there is your connection. |
Anonymous
Not rich people who as you might see do not get divorced at the rate of the general population. Not saying they are happier just saying there is less divorce. It is much too hard to untangle. $25 million NW can be a great lifestyle. $12.5 would not pay for either of them. |
Anonymous
No one in their right mind pops 5 kids in this day and age, not if they reslly want to be involved in child raising. |